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Plastiks and UNDP Armenia Working on a Partnership to Launch Traceable Plastic Recovery Pilot on Cardano
UNDP Armenia is in the process of starting a partnership with Plastiks to address the country’s underdeveloped recycling infrastructure by piloting a blockchain-based model that incentivizes plastic recovery through verified plastic credits. This collaboration is part of the inaugural SDG Blockchain Accelerator, led by the UNDP Alternative Finance Lab, Blockchain4Good […]
UNDP Launches Green Urban Tech Open Call to Boost Greener, Smarter and More Resilient Cities
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Europe and Central Asia has launched the BOOST x CEF: Green Urban Tech open call, inviting innovators worldwide to […]
UNDP Releases 2024 Slovak Transformation Fund Annual Report
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Europe and Central Asia has released its 2024 Annual Report for the Slovak Transformation Fund (STF), spotlighting how […]
My Journey as an Online Volunteer with the City Experimental Fund
Andrii Nahornyi is a GIS specialist with a background in spatial data analysis, cartography, and remote sensing. He holds a BSc in Geomatics and specializes […]
Charting Urban Futures: Inside the CEF Portfolio Bootcamp in Bratislava
How do you prepare cities to navigate the complexity of green and digital transitions – not through isolated projects, but through interconnected portfolios that learn, adapt, […]
Urban Future Talks: A glimpse into the future of Eastern Partnership cities
When thinking about the future, we often ask who gets to speak for it. But instead, we decided to ask ourselves a different question: who […]
TvojCO2 | A new UNDP digital tool that’s bringing forests back to life
Our world is changing fast – often faster than societies can adapt. The seemingly imperceptible changes to our climate, brought on by the burning of […]
UNDP and CPI partner to launch new Urban Imaginaries programme in Eastern Partnership countries
Supporting cities to take a more complexity-informed approach to urban challenges. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Centre for Public Impact (CPI) have […]
Testimonies from the joint EU & UNDP initiative Mayors for Economic Growth (Part 1)
I am standing on a podium in Baku, Azerbaijan, in front of 46 city Mayors, gathered together from all corners of the country. There is […]
Systems lens into the cities: can we be “on time”?
In nowadays world immersed in multiple crises and in growing uncertainty, where the situation and dynamics change even on hourly basis, we should all embrace […]
The value of a tree and why we need to rethink how we measure it
Cut down, an average tree could be worth up to a thousand BAM. It’s simple math: no. of cubic meters x the price of m3 of […]
City Experiment Fund: Applying systems thinking to urban transformation
When you talk to urban development practitioners, they seem to agree that there are no silver bullet solutions to the challenges cities face. What is […]
What if a purpose-driven tech solution can help make cities more people-centered and inclusive?
What do Marvel comic book, technology and people have in common? They all ask the question “What if…?” and they all can be superheroes or supervillains. […]
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